2018 Man Booker Prize
Literary award
The 2018 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 16 October 2018.[1] The Man Booker dozen of 13 books was announced on 24 July, and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 20 September. The longlist included Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, the first in Booker Prize history to nominate a graphic novel.
Anna Burns was awarded the 2018 Booker Prize for her third novel, Milkman, receiving £50,000;[2] she became the first Northern Irish author to win the prize.[3]
Judging panel
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Val McDermid
- Leo Robson
- Jacqueline Rose
- Leanne Shapton
Nominees
indicates the winner
Shortlist
Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Anna Burns | Milkman | Novel | UK | Faber & Faber |
Esi Edugyan | Washington Black | Novel | Canada | Serpent's Tail |
Daisy Johnson | Everything Under | Novel | UK | Jonathan Cape |
Rachel Kushner | The Mars Room | Novel | USA | Jonathan Cape |
Richard Powers | The Overstory | Novel | USA | William Heinemann |
Robin Robertson | The Long Take | Verse Novel | UK | Picador |
Longlist
Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Belinda Bauer | Snap | Crime | UK | Bantam Press |
Anna Burns | Milkman | Novel | UK | Faber & Faber |
Nick Drnaso | Sabrina | Graphic Novel | USA | Granta |
Esi Edugyan | Washington Black | Novel | Canada | Serpent's Tail |
Guy Gunaratne | In Our Mad and Furious City | Novel | UK | Tinder Press |
Daisy Johnson | Everything Under | Novel | UK | Jonathan Cape |
Rachel Kushner | The Mars Room | Novel | USA | Jonathan Cape |
Sophie Mackintosh | The Water Cure | Novel | UK | Hamish Hamilton |
Michael Ondaatje | Warlight | Novel | Canada | Jonathan Cape |
Richard Powers | The Overstory | Novel | USA | William Heinemann |
Robin Robertson | The Long Take | Verse Novel | UK | Picador |
Sally Rooney | Normal People | Novel | Ireland | Faber & Faber |
Donal Ryan | From A Low and Quiet Sea | Novel | Ireland | Doubleday Ireland |
See also
References
- ^ "The Man Booker Prize - Key Dates". The Man Booker Prizes.
- ^ "Anna Burns wins 50th Man Booker Prize with Milkman! | The Man Booker Prizes". themanbookerprize.com. Archived from the original on 2019-03-27. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
- ^ Flood, Alison; Armitstead, Claire (2018-10-16). "Anna Burns wins Man Booker prize for 'incredibly original' Milkman". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
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Recipients of the Booker Prize
- 1969: P. H. Newby (Something to Answer For)
- 1970: Bernice Rubens (The Elected Member)
- 1970 Lost Prize: J. G. Farrell (Troubles)
- 1971: V. S. Naipaul (In a Free State)
- 1972: John Berger (G.)
- 1973: J. G. Farrell (The Siege of Krishnapur)
- 1974: Nadine Gordimer (The Conservationist) and Stanley Middleton (Holiday)
- 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Heat and Dust)
- 1976: David Storey (Saville)
- 1977: Paul Scott (Staying On)
- 1978: Iris Murdoch (The Sea, The Sea)
- 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald (Offshore)
- 1980: William Golding (Rites of Passage)
- 1981: Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children)
- 1982: Thomas Keneally (Schindler's Ark)
- 1983: J. M. Coetzee (Life & Times of Michael K)
- 1984: Anita Brookner (Hotel du Lac)
- 1985: Keri Hulme (The Bone People)
- 1986: Kingsley Amis (The Old Devils)
- 1987: Penelope Lively (Moon Tiger)
- 1988: Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda)
- 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day)
- 1990: A. S. Byatt (Possession)
- 1991: Ben Okri (The Famished Road)
- 1992: Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Barry Unsworth (Sacred Hunger)
- 1993: Roddy Doyle (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha)
- 1994: James Kelman (How Late It Was, How Late)
- 1995: Pat Barker (The Ghost Road)
- 1996: Graham Swift (Last Orders)
- 1997: Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)
- 1998: Ian McEwan (Amsterdam)
- 1999: J. M. Coetzee (Disgrace)
- 2000: Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
- 2001: Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang)
- 2002: Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
- 2003: DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little)
- 2004: Alan Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty)
- 2005: John Banville (The Sea)
- 2006: Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss)
- 2007: Anne Enright (The Gathering)
- 2008: Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger)
- 2009: Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall)
- 2010: Howard Jacobson (The Finkler Question)
- 2011: Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
- 2012: Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies)
- 2013: Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries)
- 2014: Richard Flanagan (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
- 2015: Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings)
- 2016: Paul Beatty (The Sellout)
- 2017: George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo)
- 2018: Anna Burns (Milkman)
- 2019: Margaret Atwood (The Testaments) and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other)
- 2020: Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain)
- 2021: Damon Galgut (The Promise)
- 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka (The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida)
- 2023: Paul Lynch (Prophet Song)